Improvement in device for folding letters



htitd 51am @met @titille GEORGE W. ROSS LEW'IN, OF ROCHESTER', NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 94,012, lated August 2 4, 1869; antedatetl'Aug'ust 7, 1869.

*mwa- IMPROVEIVIENT IN DEVICE FOR FOLDING LETTERS, 8m.

The Schedule referredv to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Ross LWIN, of the city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine or Instrument for the More Rapid and "Easy Mode of Folding, to Uniform \Vidtl1, Letters, Invoices, Bills, and all other papers to be tiled, indorsed, or folded; `and I do hereby ,declare Vthat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to l the annexed drawings, making a part of this specioaltion, in which- ,Figure 1 is a transverse section, and Figure 2, a longitudinal elevation.

The machine constituting this invention consists of i a single plate or sheet of enamelled tin or other suhstance, marked inr the accompanying drawing A A D D, bent or folded over on the line B B', the whole forming two leaves of unequal widths; the lower leaf, D B B' D', and the upper leaf being A B-B A. Y

'lhe mode of operating the instrument is as follows,

viz: The letter, bill, or paper to be folded, is passed in between the two leaves till 'it strikes the line B B',

and is then folded over the upper leaf at the line A A?, 

